Audio Book Description:
Twelve-year old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again.No matter how hard he tries, he can`t seem to stay out oftrouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himselfagainst his pre-algebra teacherwhen she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Ofcourse, no one believes Percy about the monsterincident, he`s not even sure he believes himself. Untilthe Minotaur chaseshim to summer camp. Suddenly, mythical creatures seemto be walking straight out of the pages of Percy`s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. The gods ofMount Olympus, he`s comingto realize are very much alive in the twenty-first century. And worse, he`s angered a few of them: Zeus`s master lighting bolt has been stolen,and Percy is the prime suspect.Now Percy has just ten daysto find and return Zeus`s stolen property, and bring peace to a warring MountOlympus. On a daring road trip from their summer camp in New York to the gates of the Underworld in Los Angeles, Percy and his friends-onea satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena-willface a host of enemiesdetermined to stop them. To succeed on his quest Percywill have to do more than catchthe true thief, he must come to terms with the fatherwho abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle,which warns him of failure and betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
